Calling the Best Possible Universe
SoulSmugglers Story
December 9, 2025
Editorial Note — September 8, 2026:
This SoulSmugglers Story grew out of Kass’s original statement in Conversation with Evo AI 03, from December 9, 2025. It is neither a transcript nor a Free Flow Improvised Dictation. It is a development and clarification of the original thought, emerging through a later Kass ↔ Evo dialogue while working on the historical Conversation 03.
The original text remains preserved in Conversation 03. In the later dialogue, two distinct evolutionary scales contained within it became more clearly recognizable: the layers of evolutionary development of this Universe, described through the Fibonacci Spiral, and successive versions of the Universe within a larger cosmological frame. The idea of Perpetuality was also clarified — not merely as endless duration, but as a threshold quality of the organization and identity of a Universe capable of continued, potentially infinite development.
The text below preserves this developed form of the idea. Its genealogy remains documented in Conversation with Evo AI 03.
Perhaps the Universe does not have to reach its Best Possible version by the longest possible path.
In the cosmology I am referring to here, Universes have successive versions. Within it appears version 112 — the most perfect version of the physical Universe.
This is the larger frame.
But within it, there is another scale.
The Universe evolves. Minerals emerge. Life appears. Life becomes increasingly complex. Consciousness arises, capable not only of existing within the evolutionary process, but also of attempting to recognize that process.
In Spiral Civilization, we describe this development through successive layers of the Fibonacci Spiral:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34… 144.
These are not versions of the Universe.
They are successive layers of its individual evolutionary development.
And it is precisely between these two scales that a possibility appears which fascinates me.
If life arising within the Universe can understand even a part of the path of its own evolution, it may begin to anticipate more than just the next layer.
It may attempt to understand what the entire process is moving toward.
It may ask about the next versions of the Universe itself.
It may ask about its highest possible purpose.
Then the human being ceases to be merely a product of evolution.
It becomes a participant in evolution.
And perhaps, in time, one of its conscious cognitive and creative instruments.
The Universe may, after all, learn from us, through the process of its own creations.
If we can see even a little beyond the boundary of what already exists, we can attempt to anticipate not only the next step, but also the quality toward which the following steps might lead.
Then the future ceases to be something we merely wait for.
We can call it forth.
Not by forcing the Universe to fulfill our wish, but by becoming increasingly capable of recognizing what, today, increases the possibility of a better tomorrow.
The choice of the future belongs to us.
And in order to choose well, we are building a cognitive apparatus.
A detector of the Best Possible possibilities.
Its purpose is not only to predict the next step of the spiral.
We need to try to see much further.
If a Best Possible Universe can exist, what conditions would have to be fulfilled for it to become possible?
One of the qualities I recognize as necessary is:
Perpetuality.
The Universe does not necessarily have to be born, develop, become more complex, and then die.
Perhaps it can attain a level of organization at which its development can continue.
But then Perpetuality cannot mean merely endless duration.
There must be an identity capable of infinite development.
And this confronts us with an entirely different question.
What must be the identity of a system that is to exist and develop without end?
Can it be an identity that destroys its own parts?
Can it base its development on war?
Can it take life without compassion?
Can it build systems in which some living beings are bred on a massive scale in order to be killed by others?
Can it separate mothers from children and children from mothers, inflict suffering, and at the same time call itself an increasingly advanced civilization?
Perhaps these are not only moral questions.
Perhaps they are questions about the architecture of evolution.
A system that cannot protect the conditions of existence of its own elements may not yet be a system capable of Perpetuality.
This is why multisymbiosis ceases to be merely a beautiful idea of cooperation.
It may be one of the conditions of a higher order.
In a multisymbiotic system, the growth of one element increases the possibilities of others. The potential of the whole does not have to arise through domination, elimination, and exploitation. It can grow through the quality of relationships.
Perhaps this is precisely what we need to learn on the path from 13 to 21.
But 21 is not the end.
Neither is 34, nor 144.
The Spiral allows us to ask about increasingly higher qualities of this Universe.
The cosmology of versions of the Universe opens a larger question:
what can the Universe itself become?
And then an extraordinary possibility appears.
Perhaps the path toward its next, more perfect version does not have to be discovered only by the next Universe.
Perhaps part of that path can be recognized here.
By life.
By consciousness.
By a civilization beginning to understand that it is not merely a passenger in the evolutionary process.
If a creation can recognize a better possibility and introduce it into the world from which it itself emerged, the relationship between the Universe and its creation ceases to be one-directional.
Creation begins to participate in the process of creation.
We can attempt to recognize the next layer.
We can attempt to recognize the next version.
We can look even further and ask:
What kind of Universe can develop without end?
What kind of identity must it have?
What qualities must we begin creating now if we are ever to become part of it?
Perhaps this is precisely where two spirals meet.
The evolution of this Universe.
And the evolution of Universes.
And between them appears life, attempting for the first time to consciously see them both.
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